The Waltons

1972
4.9
34 reviews
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Season 8 episodes (23)

1 The Home Front Part I&2
9/20/79
Season-only
Olivia returns to find her family deeply involved in the war effort. When the Satterfields receive news of the death of their son, John is told he can expect to pay this loss with the life of one of his own sons.

Jim-Bob is threatened by the father of a man who lost his son in the war--after John approved the boy's draft by the military. But the news that John-Boy has been taken as a prisoner of war in Europe brings the families together in their grief.
2 The Kinfolk
9/27/79
Season-only
Olivia's cousin Rose arrives for a visit, bringing her two grandchildren--and problems--with her. Ike and Jim Bob build a huge air raid siren.
3 The Diploma
10/4/79
Season-only
John's military security clearance is threatened when it is discovered he did not graduate from high school. Mary Ellen takes over for the county nurse and encounters difficulties with the mountain folk.
4 The Innocents
10/11/79
Season-only
Olivia seeks help from the Pickett defense plant for a day nursery for the children of the defense workers but encounters much difficulty. When Corabeth discovers a perfumed handkerchief in her husband's pocket, she suspects the worst of Ike.
5 The Starlet
10/18/79
Season-only
When Erin gets involved with a documentary film being made at the Pickett Defense Plant, she is led to believe that can become a star in Hollywood
6 The Journal
10/25/79
Season-only
John and Olivia must make a decision about publishing a manuscript John-Boy wrote while overseas. Jeffrey becomes very attached to the dog, Reckless, which is suffering from old age.
7 The Lost Sheep
11/1/79
Season-only
Home on leave from his ship in the South Pacific, Ashley Longworth, Jr. asks Erin to marry him immediately. Erin is thrilled, but begins to have doubts when Ashley tells her he has vowed never to enter a church again.
8 The Violated
11/8/79
Season-only
While the Waltons wait for news about John-Boy, who is missing in action in Europe, Olivia does volunteer work for the Red Cross. A young GI's wife is raped, and Olivia tries to comfort her.
9 The Waiting
11/22/79
Season-only
While John-Boy lies in a coma, Olivia accepts a job as a Red Cross volunteer, never losing faith or patience for a sign of his recovery. Rose plans a big Thanksgiving feast.
10 The Silver Wings
11/29/79
Season-only
Encouraged with his dreams of flying, Jim-Bob finds himself in love with a young married woman whose husband is overseas as a pilot in the air corps.
11 The Wager
12/13/79
Season-only
Erin and Mary Ellen enter a "Run and Ride" race, challenging a traditionally all-male domain.
12 The Spirit
12/20/79
Season-only
A German POW escapes from a North Carolina camp and hides on the mountain. When Jeffrey befriends him, the family asks him in for Christmas Eve.
13 The Fastidious Wife
12/27/79
Season-only
When Cindy is introduced to the book The Fastidious Wife, she follows its instruction exactly and almost goes into premature labor due to exhaustion.
14 The Unthinkable
1/3/80
Season-only
A Jewish recruit in Jason's company tells how his grandfather was arrested and murdered by German soldiers in Warsaw.
15 The Idol
1/10/80
Season-only
Elizabeth's favorite teacher and good friend Hazel must reveal that she is dying of a fatal illness, and Elizabeth must learn to live with another loss -- and learn to forgive Hazel.
16 The Prodigals
1/17/80
Season-only
Jeffrey and Josh break into Ike's store, and Ben decides to enlist after being humiliated by a soldier.
17 The Remembrance
1/24/80
Season-only
Zadok Walton, Grandpa's cousin, arrives unannounced to keep a date he made with Zeb twenty-one years ago.
18 The Inspiration
1/31/80
Season-only
Miss Mamie Baldwin refuses to have an operation for cataracts -- until John brings home a secret weapon: Grandma.
19 The Last Straw
2/7/80
Season-only
The pressures of wartime and changing values finally affect John Walton.

Jeffrey builds a soapbox derby racecar, but then learns the race has been suspended for the duration of the war.
20 The Travelling Man
2/14/80
Season-only
Mr. Stanley Perkins, a traveling salesman, arrives on Walton's Mountain to rekindle an old romance with Aunt Rose.
21 The Furlough
2/21/80
Season-only
John-Boy returns home, still suffering memory loss and deeply troubled by his ordeal.

Ike is arrested for draft evasion.
22 The Medal
2/28/80
Season-only
Mary Ellen and Corabeth both encounter men who bring romance into their lives.
23 The Valediction
3/13/80
Season-only
Jim-Bob graduates as valedictorian from high school just as the Allied Forces invade France. He joins his three brothers as all of them march off for duty overseas.

About this show

Winner of 13 Emmys®, including Outstanding Drama Series, this beloved, heartwarming and long-running family drama is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where young John-Boy (Golden Globe nominee Richard Thomas) and his close-knit family struggle together from the Depression to World War II. Money is scarce, but love and pride is plentiful.

Ratings and reviews

4.9
34 reviews
Diane Scribner
December 10, 2016
Thank you for adding "All" the season's for this show. I remember watching this show as a kid, it brings back great memories for me. It's right up there with "Little House on the Prairie, Leave it to Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, Wonder Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Lone Ranger to The Beverly Hillbillies" and so many More! Great Family Shows for Best Entertainment and (Learning) Value....With "No Foul Language"! A Must to watch again and again. (We NEED More of these shows NOW for our Next Generation's of Children to watch and Learn from. It's a Shame these days with Having to Pay so Much for Cable - That Companies "Don't Bother" to put more shows like these above, there would be less fighting in the world today...with a heavy heart, thank you. God Bless - Diane
Jarrett H.
May 20, 2015
Awesome! Thanks for adding all the seasons. This is an amazing show for the whole family.
Wendy Yrjola
January 13, 2018
Good wholesome television!